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...Beware the Perilous Story Line As much as anything, what killed Gore in 2000 was the rap that he was a stiff who couldn't stop telling whoppers. Perceptions are jelling that Edwards is callow, Kerry aloof and patrician, Gephardt yesterday's news. Dean? Well, he's from tiny Vermont...
Through change, there is continuity. From patrician New Yorker and future U.S. president to Chinese-speaking gay redneck Canadian computer geek to Indian-Muslim-Texan football player dating a Korean to Israeli resident of Newton concentrating in East Asian studies, one thing thankfully remains constant: the Asian fetish...
DIED. J. CARTER BROWN, 67, patrician populist who, as head of Washington's National Gallery of Art, helped transform America's museums from dusty vaults to extravagant showplaces for the masses; of multiple myeloma; in Boston. During his 23-year tenure, Brown boosted federal funding for the gallery and repositioned it as a rival of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. He pioneered the phenomenon of the blockbuster exhibition with such shows as King Tut and Andrew Wyeth's "Helga" series...
...struck a very patrician figure and yet he was beloved by the employees in all departments,” Storin said. “I think that he knew the name of every employee at the Globe...
...Jowzjan and Faryab. But the onetime master of the north now finds his position challenged by the growing power of his erstwhile ally in the Northern Alliance, the mainly Tajik Jamiat-i-Islami faction. Jamiat's ascension has prompted an unlikely alignment between Dostum and Hamid Karzai, the patrician Pashtun tribal leader who heads Kabul's interim government. In December Karzai appointed Dostum deputy to Defense Minister Mohammed Fahim, Jamiat's military strongman, and in March he named Dostum his "special representative" in the north. Dostum has also conspicuously aligned himself with former King Mohammed Zahir Shah. The moves suggest...